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Conciergerie   Listen
noun
Conciergerie  n.  
1.
The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.
2.
A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris.





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"Conciergerie" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vincent from the Rue Mont-orgueil, I saw, on entering the Rue St. Honore, two figures before us; the tall and noble stature of the one I could not for a moment mistake. They stopped at the door of an hotel, which opened in that noiseless manner so peculiar to the Conciergerie of France. I was at the porte the moment they disappeared, but not before I had caught a glance of the dark locks and pale countenance of Warburton—my eye fell upon the number ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... too intent on watching for further fugitives to do more than keep me in sight of their loaded pistols. That was bad enough, however, and would have sufficed to land me in the Conciergerie, had not an alarm of fire, followed by volumes of smoke, just then proceeded from a house opposite that in which the fugitive deputy was supposed to be hidden. A rush took place for the spot and the loud sounding of the tocsin down the street, and in the midst of ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... of a Christmas alone chilled my heart. I tried to be jolly, and gave my repertory on the mouth-organ, which promptly stopped all activities on the part of the round-eyed Queenie MacKenzie. But all that foolery was as forced as the frivolity of the French Revolution Conciergerie where the merry diners couldn't quite forget they were going to lose their ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... had hooted and insulted him from the Conciergerie to the Place de Greve, fell suddenly silent as he mounted the scaffold, his step firm, but his shoulders bowed, and ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini


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